Stitching spring barley into winter wheat

[SilliamWhale]

Anyone doing it?

I've got a poor field of wheat which I was in two minds about keeping but now stitching in a low rate of barley in it. Be an interesting experiment

 

[Flintstone]

Back in early March I stitched some spring wheat into some areas of patchy winter wheat. There’s a photo of it below. The spring wheat has filled the gaps nicely, and I’ll just give these areas a litre of glypho as soon as the spring wheat is at cheesy ripe stage. It was about 4 hectares in a 20 hectare field.

I see no reason why you can’t do the same with barley, and then just combine it in a way so that it self blends into the shed in the summer. It’s the kind of year where anything goes!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Back in early March I stitched some spring wheat into some areas of patchy winter wheat. There’s a photo of it below. The spring wheat has filled the gaps nicely, and I’ll just give these areas a litre of glypho as soon as the spring wheat is at cheesy ripe stage. It was about 4 hectares in a 20 hectare field.

I see no reason why you can’t do the same with barley, and then just combine it in a way so that it self blends into the shed in the summer. It’s the kind of year where anything goes!

. yeah I would have stitched some Skyfall in in Feb but no weather!

 

[Adeptandy]

I’ve had similar but been stitching s wheat into w wheat and s barley into w barley

 

[Badshot]

Spring barley and winter wheat will likely come ripe very close together anyway.

 

[Woody j]

Anyone doing it?

I've got a poor field of wheat which I was in two minds about keeping but now stitching in a low rate of barley in it. Be an interesting experiment

It will work ok ,done it before . Wheat and barley will ripen at same time

 

[womble8350]

Have done this in the past. Just used to combine then use it for on farm feed. Always referred to it as Wharley

 

[stroller]

I stitched some wheat into the failed bits of wheat back in January in the dry spell, then it got wet again and the bits I'd redrilled got wet and rotted, again. I might put a bit of phaecelia in those patches just to have something growing there.

 

[yellow belly]

I direct drilled into failed wheat in late April 2013 sprayed off the drilled bits after drilling
In some fields the spring barley yielded higher than the wheat left
Only had 4 fields with 100%wheat that year
It helps having a drill and combine the same width and using controlled traffic system